IIT (BHU) Varanasi — student-driven innovation in silicon, systems & deep-tech.
Hands‑on, from architecture to silicon. Students lead projects in VLSI, embedded, ML hardware.
Deep-tech ventures: plasma CVD, next‑gen computing, industry collaboration.
Custom ISAs, superscalar, cache coherent fabrics.
PnR, clock tree, DRC, open-source EDA.
FPGA prototyping, real‑time, DSP accelerators.
Spiking NNs, Loihi, event-based vision.
PIM architectures, memristor, near‑data compute.
RF, SDR, satellite data processing.
Students also contribute to open source (OpenROAD, Chipyard) and have won 12+ national hardware hackathons.
Alumni Undergraduate Research Avenue – dedicated space for prototyping, with Zynq FPGAs, oscilloscopes, and 24/7 access.
Semiconductor testers, logic analyzers, and high-speed measurement.
Professors from Electronics Engg. guide research groups, weekly meetings and paper writing.
Memory testers, neuromorphic setups, anechoic chamber for communication.
Apr 2025 — 3rd year students share experience of submitting a 180nm chip.
#VLSIHardware design hackathon: neuromorphic core on FPGA.
#ML“Processing‑in‑Memory survey” published in ACM Student Research.
#PIMEngineers from Apple, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments mentor students.
First weather image decoded from NOAA-19.
Team contributes sky130 flow to OpenROAD.